I am struggling today. I’ll be traveling to Mongolia in less then a month. I’ll stay for around 10 days. I go there to hopefully get some answers about how we can stay there. I don’t know why, but I felt like I should bring someone along. Maybe it was because I’m wanted to go on the trip with someone, but I doubt it. I like my alone time. I do know that it will help me be more productive while I’m there. Jennifer’s sister’s husband is coming with me, which is incredibly generous of him.
I just have so many doubts. I know that the Lord counsels us that those who are not of little faith can accomplish great things through him. So I’m trying not to doubt. But today, I confess, is a low day. I don’t know how we’ll get visas. Then, once we somehow get visas, I don’t know how we’ll make enough money to get by. We go because we feel called to go, but our church doesn’t know we’re going. I wish the clouds would part a little.
I prayed for help in having faith. I prayed that I would feel something. Anything. Any sign that this is still what He wants us to do. The simple answer came.
Read the scriptures. Write down your promptings.
The lesson in Come, Follow Me this week talks about the crossing of the Red Sea:
The Israelites were trapped. The Red Sea was on one side, and the army of Pharaoh was advancing on the other. Their escape from Egypt, it seemed, would be short lived. But God had a message for the Israelites that He wanted them to remember for generations: “Fear ye not. … The Lord shall fight for you” (Exodus 14:13–14).
Since that time, when God’s people have needed faith and courage, they have told this story. When Nephi wanted to inspire his brothers, he said, “Let us be strong like unto Moses; for he truly spake unto the waters of the Red Sea and they divided hither and thither, and our fathers came through, out of captivity, on dry ground” (1 Nephi 4:2). When King Limhi wanted his captive people to “lift up [their] heads, and rejoice,” he reminded them of this same story (Mosiah 7:19). So did Alma, when he wanted to testify to his son of God’s power (see Alma 36:28). And when we feel trapped—when we need a little more faith to “see the salvation of the Lord”—we can remember how “the Lord saved Israel that day” (Exodus 14:13, 30).ttps://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-home-and-church-old-testament-2026/16?lang=eng
I don’t fear that Heavenly Father won’t keep his word. I fear that my faith will fail so that I won’t be able to hear Him when it’s time.
But in the King James version of Exodus 14:14, it says:
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
In the NIV:
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
I can be still.